Displaying items by tag: Australian National Audit Office

Doubts have been cast on the NBN Co's financial projections and its ability to repay the $19.5 billion that it has been loaned by the Federal Government, with a report from the Australian National Audit Office putting the chances of its financial statements being incorrect as "high".

The Australian National Audit Office has slammed the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission over the failure of a biometric identity project, contracted out to NEC Australia, that had to be junked after more than two years and expenditure of $34 million.

Vodafone has called on Australia's federal government to act "following yet another damning USO report".

A $28 million Federal document verification program set up under the Howard Government to combating identity theft and other cybercrimes had made only "limited" progress and made little improvement to personal identification processes, the Auditor General has found.